Unintentional Day Off

I wish I worked today! But, having been sick the past two days I decided I HAD to take Saturday off if I was going to recover. And it was good, because I went to bed at 8:30 last night thinking I wasn't tired and slept until 10:30 this morning! I really needed it.
So today I just hung around, didn't do much. Sean took me out to lunch at Chili's and I got yummy portabello mushroom fajitas. Matt somehow managed to sleep.
Anyway, this is just a quick blog just to put up some pictures of Sean feeding Matt his last container of pureed peas. ...yum...
Well, at least Matt likes them! He was screaming, and as soon as Sean put that spoon in his mouth he was all smiles and happiness.

Mom! Trying to eat my hand here!

Please take note of the carefully deposited pea puree in his nose.

Sean is smiling because he knows personally how good those peas are. Seriously. I caught him in the kitchen last night, sitting on the floor making airplane noises as he "flew" the mashed peas into the "airport". He denies the whole thing.

At this point Matt is wondering if there really are only peas in my concoction. I mean, the "pre-made" "pure" baby food.

Our poor starving dog who has been reduced to begging for baby food. What a sad life.

Don't point that camera at me like I made the mess!!!!!!

Yeah. Not me. I swear.

Anyway, time for bed!

Six Flags!!!

Yesterday was my best friend Jana's birthday! So, as her birthday present, we went to six flags!
Here is the birthday girl driving. YAY!

First, we ate at Denny's.

Where the waiter was awesome up until he completely ditched us and disappeared. I think he got fired for giving services too good for Denny's.
Here are some shots of six flags from above.





Cool, huh? We had tons of fun. I groomed my brother-in-law's Golden retriever Sugar on Sunday, as as a tip he gave me this:





Look, Apple may be a big, evil corporation, but damn, those things are cool! It's only one gig, but it holds all my non i-tunes songs that are on my computer. Cool huh?
And almost lastly, here are my six flags souvenirs.


I love Daffy. :-D

Couldn't resist.
And lastly, here is what Matt is doing while I write all this.

Woo hoo!!!

More Peas, Peas!

Ok, Matt is not wanting to go to sleep! No wonder, he has had a wonder-filled day. First, we got this:

(closer)

from Jean (my mother-in-law),
and Matt had lots of fun watching me struggle to put it together.
Then he was hungry.
So, after feeding him most of a bottle, and when he was in a reasonably good mood, I decided it was time for his first food. Sweet potatoes? Nah. Squash? Nah. Banannas? No...hmm...pears? Nope. Oh, duh, EVERY kid's favorite food! PEAS!!!!!

So I fed it to him, and instead of getting a nasty look on his face and spitting it out, he gobbled it down as best as he could (which wasn't that well), and decided,

eventually,

That I wasn't doing it right,

and he would just do it himself!





Then after clean-up, it was sleepy time.

So, goodnight everyone!

cat in lap--posting pictures

Nostromo likes to butt my hand as I am typing.
Anyway, been pretty busy and the times I haven't been busy working, cleaning, doing household stuff and taking care of Matt, I really haven't felt like updating my blog.
But here are some pics from the last few days.

Some evil person likes to take pictures of me sleeping!!!! Must have been after the morning feeding, sometimes I like to cuddle with him and go back to sleep for his morning nap.

tummy time?

happy happy tummy time!!!

looking confused is my specialty.

what?

huh??

My dog is so nice. This picture was taken right before Matt decided to grab a fistful of her beard next to her nose and twist and pull. She just laid her head down and gave me a very sad look.

This picture is forshadowing the devious toddler Matt is soon to become.

He fell asleep like this yesterday. He did have both feet in his hands, but let one slip before we could find the camera.
Anyway, there ya go. Some pictures to keep you going until I can post again! Well, Matt is asleep and I can almost hear the timer in his head! I have about 20 minutes to make/eat breakfast, then it's Matt Central Time until about 3 or 4 pm.
Blog to ya later!!!!
Ok FINE.
HERE.

You guys are never satisfied until you see the real star of the show. Sheesh!

yikes

Lol, I know, no point in keeping a blog if I don't update it! Busy busy!!! Grooming full time and being a mom full time is time consuming. I will be transferring to the Hemet store. (Petsmart). The reason I didn't transfer before was because I didn't think they had the business, but they do! And they need groomers! So, looks like I'll be working 2 minutes from home! And since I need to lose the baby weight, I will be biking to work. And be saving on gas! Yay! So, as usual, I'm busy! So I will post later! Lol...probably in a month :-P

Sean's Dad Visits Matt!

For the first time since his birth. Unfortunately, I haven't got any pictures of him/Sean/the baby yet, but I'm sure I will since today was only his first day here. Sean is really happy--he's been in a good mood all day. Not much to report really--I get to work all weekend. Yay...
Well at least I'll be making buku bucks! Anyway, here are some pictures. I tried to get some of Sean changing Matt, but the stupid camera decided it wasn't dark enough to flash...>:-(

Matt getting ready to throw a right hook at daddy

One day, mom, I WILL get back at you for photo-blogging MY DIAPER CHANGING!!!

Seriously.

Well, it WAS a cute picture when I took it...

Nostromo

Okay, after the extensive angry fan mail demanding to see a picture of this legendary "Nostromo", I decided to oblige for the sake of posterity.
The things I do...

Nostromo, in Sean's chair.

Nostromo, in another chair that looks identical to Sean's chair but is, in fact, it's evil twin.

Visit #3

Just got home from driving my Mom to the airport, feeding Matt and watching the latest episode of Heroes. Interesting...now when Sean gets home from school, we'll watch 24 together. If Matt allows us, that is.
Matt has been very social lately, talking and smiling at everyone. Mom enjoyed her visit, and Brenda enjoyed the last visit before her trip to Connecticut. Hm. That is spelled weird. I guess I'll have to learn how to spell that now instead of relying on spellchecker.
Brenda is entrusting Nostromo to me for a month while she gets settled back east. He and my other male tabby, Nino, are rivals now, but I see the beginnings of a friendship. Mai is eating Nostromo's poop from the cat box...sigh. It seems like my blog address is becoming truer and truer. Ebony, as usual, could really care less about Nostromo and his menacing growls. I do think he senses Ebony doesn't care, so he doesn't really go after her if she comes too close. He hates Mai with a passion. This is probably because she has absolutely no sense of personal space and barks loudly in his face (looking at me), if he growls or hisses at her. Yes, like I didn't hear it. She really thinks I am dumb.
Matt is having tummy time now, spitting up on my bed. He already spit up a big puddle, so I am just letting him drool on a separate area. Hey, I have to change the sheets anyway!
I still love being a mom! Even when Sean was at drill and he was super, super fussy, I didn't mind. Ok, Matt is getting mad. So I will take a picture of him now, post it, and sign off. He is really getting time-restrictive these days! But it's ok, it means he is more interesting. :-)

fun, fun, fun

Matt+drool puddle=wet arm

Nino felt insecure last night after Nostromo's arrival. So did Sean. Luckily, they have each other. And I have a camera with flash and the ability to disturb a precious moment all for the sake of a good blog pic.

Nino wasn't happy.

Sorry!

Okay, so it's been a while since I last posted. I went back to work, and every spare moment I have I want to spend it with Sean and Matt or doing essential errands.
So, quick updates before Matt wakes up. He is smiling a lot now, and smiling in response to things I say and my tone of voice. He likes silly faces and will try to imitate them. If you talk and he is in the right mood, he'll imitate what you say with coos. He is wonderful. He had a doctor appointment last week and the doctor was extremely impressed with his "gross motor skills". He said that Matt was extremely advanced, and in his entire career as a pediatrician he had only seen 2 or 3 other babies who can do what he can do at that age. He has the motor skills of a 4 month old, and he was only 2 months. His social skills (smiling, cooing, looking at you when you speak, imitation) are totally normal and not abnormally advanced. He is in the 50th percentile with weight and height (12.5 pounds, 24 inches). He obviously is already excelling physically. The doctor was so impressed and wondered what Matt would be doing at 4 months. He said that he thinks Matt will be walking by 9 months old. I wouldn't doubt it--heck I walked at 9 months old and I don't believe I was super physically advanced. The things Matt does are totally possible for someone his age, just very rare. When the doctor held him in a standing position, Matt held all his weight on his legs for about 5 seconds. I can't wait until he can walk!
I know, everyone says that it's terrible because they get into everything, but I already have 4 animals and nothing is safe. It's not like I'm not used to it. I know everything and everywhere in my house that a baby would find interesting because my animals have kindly shown me.
He is also sleeping in his crib now. He has outgrown the bassinet. The baby monitors are coming in handy. Speaking of that, I hear Matt fussing! Maybe he'll go back to sleep....
Work has been fun. Lots of dogs, lots of work, lots of money. Not too bad.
I am thinking about starting another blog about my work as a groomer. So many interesting and weird things happen every day that it's worth writing about. We'll see. I hardly keep up with THIS blog, so it'd be stupid to start another one.
Here's some pictures I just took of him in his crib. (Yes, he was waking up, but now he's sleeping in my arms)


Anyway, going to go take a shower and put Mr. Matt back in his crib. He's doing well with that, by the way. He doesn't mind sleeping by himself. What a good kid. :-)